Last Saturday, The Independent wrote a wide-ranging report on leasehold issues including the Cirrus scandal and the need for reforms. Headed ‘The secret of how to give your flat a new lease of life … ‘ it was, in fact, a round-up of: the Cirrus scandal, the OFT investigation into leasehold (the scope of which concludes on […]
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January 18: Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation leasehold meeting in Epsom
January 9, 2014 By
Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation is holding a meeting for retirement leasehold owners on January 18. The meeting will be addressed by Sebastian O’Kelly and Martin Boyd, of Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation / Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. The issues under discussion will include:
Little warmth in this masonic handshake as Peverel website removes news of winning a new block
January 9, 2014 By
On the day the Office of Fair Trading announced its findings into the Cirrus scandal, Peverel Retirement declared it had won a new client: the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institute. Peverel would be taking over the management of the 13-flat Farnfield Court in Croydon, south London. The beleaguered property management – which has lost all its […]
Cirrus isn’t an ARMA member so we have nothing to say about the price-fixing scandal, says Michelle Banks
January 8, 2014 By
… but you must take it on trust that if those bits of Peverel that ARE members sign up to ARMA-Q these practices will be ‘outlawed’ and ‘speedily detected’ Michelle Banks (right), chief executive of the Association of Residential Managing Agents, has stated that her organisation will do nothing about the Peverel / Cirrus price-fixing […]
